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A-LevelComputer ScienceProgramming FundamentalsMay/June 2024Paper 2 Q815 Marks

A teacher is designing a program to process pseudocode projects written by her students. Each student project is stored in a text file. The process is split into a number of stages. Each stage performs a different task and creates a new file named as shown: File name Comment MichaelAday_src.txt student project file produced by student Michael Aday MichaelAday_S1.txt file produced by stage 1 MichaelAday_S2.txt file produced by stage 2 The teacher has defined the first program module as follows: Module Description DeleteComment() • called with a parameter of type string representing a line of pseudocode from a student's project file • returns the line after removing any comments Note on comments: A comment starts with two forward slash characters and includes all the remaining characters on the line. The following example shows a string before and after the comment has been removed: Before: IF X2 > 13 THEN //check if limit exceeded After: IF X2 > 13 THEN

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This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science (9618) May/June 2024 examination, Paper 2 Variant 1. It tests the topic of Programming Fundamentals and is worth 15 marks.

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